Alleyn Mysteries (TV Series) Scales of Justice (1994) User Reviews

Swap last two episodes round

[SunnyDaise · 9/10 · 25 June 2021]

I would watch this before the previous episode, which rounds the series off better.

Unplanned Last Episode

[FridayGal · 8/10 · 31 March 2024]

I have read a couple of reviews which suggest that this episode - the last one filmed - should be swapped with the previous episode. I am going to assume that part of the reason why is because Ms Troy is not in this story. As Alleyn's love interest, she adds spark and substance to all the plots and episodes she's in. She softens his nature and makes him more approachable. Yet, Ngaio Marsh did not write Troy in all the plots, even after their marriage. In some, she's only mentioned when Alleyn writes her a letter. Perhaps the main reason why this episode is judged as an unsatisfactory final episode is, simply, because it was not planned to be the final episode. Perhaps more were planned but management decided against the expense - period dramas are much more expensive. Luck of the draw, or just bad luck.

A family's pride makes it hard to find a killer

[ctyankee1 · 17 February 2017]

Sir Henry Lacklander an elderly rich man is dying and he wrote a book he revised. He has a friend of his take the book with a new chapter in it and wants it published because he knows he is dying. He does die and soon after the man that has the book Thomas Cartarette is murdered while fishing. Inspector Alleyn is called in to be somebody's bodyguard by his brother and ends up investigating the Cartarette murder.

There are lots of suspects:

. A man that practices shooting with an arrow and had a intimate romance with Mrs Cartarette before she got married during the time of the war. He also does not like his neighbors.

. Octavius is a cat loving neighbor and fishes. He has arguments with the man killed about poaching fish.

. Gerald Lacklander son of Sir Lacklander that wrote a book is having an affair with Mr Cartarette's wife.

. Kitty Cartarette likes to take golf lessons from a man she is having an affair with.

There are many young men and woman in these families that are also suspect. Class, importance, family history and money play a big part in this episode.

The people that have motives seem connected some how with what happened in the war with England and Germany.

The important things that are spoken about connected to the murder are the unpublished book fish and fish scales.

So this is a mystery with so many people keeping secrets of others and hiding there own.